We made our annual Memorial Day appearance at Wolftrap National Center for the Performing Arts near Washingtom DC this past weekend, a terrific tume to be in the Nation’s Capitol. This was the opening weekend for this venerable venue and it marks the start of the “A Prairie Home Companion” summer tour, a chance to perform for big crowds in the great outdoors. We will be indoors next week at The Fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis, MO next week, but Maartin Sheen joins us again at the Greek Theater in LA the following week.
Tim visited the Smithsonion Castle, a key player in the top movie this week ” Night at the Museum 2″. On prominent display, a pile of loot, one of the key props. The Castle is showing the movie at their Imax theater. Tim also caught the exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, “The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene”. It was like the Holy Grail for fans of Arts and Crafts decorative arts.
Brad Paisley, Sue Scott, Kimberly Williams-Paisley,Tim Russell
“A Prairie Home Companion” played the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last weekend with guests Brad Paisley and the Sam Bush Band. Brad and Sam are incredible musicians and the audience got a chance to see them strut their stuff on their iwn and with The Guys All-Star Shoe Band. Brad told the story ofhow he came to name his newborn Jasper. His wife Kimberly had dreamed they had a boy and they named him Jasper. So when the baby was born on April 17th, it was a natural thing to name him Jasper Warren Paisley.Warren was Brad’s Grandfather’s name and Brad sang some songs from his soon to be released new album including one for his sons,” Anything Like Me”. They were terrific songs, it should be another monster album for the Country Male Vocalist of the year.Brad also joined us in a Guy Noir script.
Sam Bush and his Band really rocked the old tabernacle. They are the closest thing to Rock-Bluegrass fusion as you’re going to find. We did two shows, the broadcast show at 5pm Central and another 3 hour show at 9pm. The audiences were very receptive. It rained about 3 inches, in Nashville, this past weekend, so it was nice to have somewhere to go.
Tim made a trip to the Country Music Hall of Fame, always impressive and entertaining.
Tim visited the Smithsonion Castle, a key player in the top movie this week ” Night at the Museum 2″. On prominent display, a pile of loot, one of the key props. The Castle is showing the movie at their Imax theater. Tim also caught the exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, “The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene”. It was like the Holy Grail for fans of Arts and Crafts decorative arts.
